Re: Best editor for drawing directed graphs

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 09:40 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 08:36, jlk wrote:
> > I'm looking of a good interactive editor for drawing directed graphs.
> > What package would you recommend?
> 
> How complicated will they be, and how much do you want to automate the 
> process?  If the answer to either of those is "very", then you might want 
> to take a look at Graphviz.  You write a text file describing the graph 
> nodes and their relationship, and run one of its programs to turn it into a 
> minimal representation of the data.

there is also a perl module for GraphViz, it works really nice if you
have your data in a database or text file. 

there is also 'dia' which works nicely as an interactive program.

-matt zagrabelny